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Barack Obama on Sorting Algorithms

Barack Obama is speaking at Google today. Supposedly, Eric Schmidt explained his speaking at Google was kind of like an interview. When we interview candidates at Google, we like to ask technical questions.
Schmidt: What's the fastest way to sort 32 bit numbers?
Barack: Not bubble-sort.
Sure, we'd expect a little more from a technical candidate, but as a presidential candidate, I'd say that's not too bad of an answer!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I believe he actually said "I can tell you one thing: a bubble sort will not be the right path" or something along those lines.

Unknown said...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=m4yVlPqeZwo

About 23 minutes in.